A simple interpretation of Hubbert's model of resource exploitation

Energies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 646-661

  Bardi, Ugo ^a   Lavacchi, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Crude oil; Depletion; Energy returned on energy invested; EROEI; Hubbert model; Peak oil

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350555745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en20300646     Document Type: Article

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